Example Sentences

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Elvie Ellis navigates “On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship, 1492” with authority, then pivots from braggadocios to soul-baring as a budding basketball star with a dark past in “The Steam Train.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

“I’m a jealous boy, really feel like John Lennon,” he sang in “All Girls Are the Same,” in a mopey voice that could veer from downcast mumble to braggadocios rap.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2019

Don’t feel that only braggadocios apply for awards; if you’re an expert in your industry, you deserve to be recognized. 

From Forbes • Feb. 13, 2013

Bolt gave that interview to Linford Christie, and the story is reminiscent of Christie's era, when 100m sprinters were all swaggering braggadocios, swapping sharp words off the track and gimlet-eyed stares on it.

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2012

But that is always the way with you braggadocios.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various